This Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia (API, Indonesian Women's Alliance) press release demands that the Prabowo–Gibran government answer for the deepening cost-of-living crisis, rising unemployment, and systematic violence against women. The statement insists that the current crisis is not an isolated event but the accumulation of state policies that have failed to protect the people. [WL]
The Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia (API, Indonesian Women's Alliance) is calling for collective action to (…)

Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval. Hockney made success look effortless: all colour, good humour, great glasses, cigarettes and smoky charm. But for a young gay artist from a northern mill town, nothing about that journey was effortless.
Hockney knew what it was to be judged before he was properly seen. In Britain, class prejudice (…)

Israël a fermé ses frontières aux travailleurs de Cisjordanie après le 7 octobre. Mais poussés par le désespoir, des milliers d'entre eux trouvent le moyen de passer — et la police israélienne continue de leur tirer dessus.
Des Palestiniens utilisent une corde pour escalader la clôture qui sépare la ville d'Al-Ram de Jérusalem-Est, le 12 janvier 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Le mardi 12 mai a commencé comme tant d'autres pour Zakaria Qatousa, un père de quatre enfants âgé de 44 ans (…)

The West Philippine Sea dispute has exposed a fault line within the Philippine left between those who oppose Chinese maritime aggression while accepting US military expansion as a necessary counterweight, and those who reject both. The independent left Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, has drifted toward accommodation with the Marcos administration's strategic alignment with Washington, including the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and US rotational forces. The Partido Lakas ng (…)

Tran To Nga, an 84-year-old Vietnamese-French activist exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, appeared before France's highest court for civil and criminal matters on 16 June 2026, confronting fourteen agrochemical multinationals --- including Bayer-Monsanto and Dow Chemical --- that supplied the defoliant to the US military. Two lower courts had previously dismissed her case on grounds of jurisdictional immunity, holding that the companies acted under US government orders and could (…)